diff --git a/src/applications/search/index/indexer/PhabricatorSearchDocumentIndexer.php b/src/applications/search/index/indexer/PhabricatorSearchDocumentIndexer.php
index d2d9c8458e..3d7dd778ba 100644
--- a/src/applications/search/index/indexer/PhabricatorSearchDocumentIndexer.php
+++ b/src/applications/search/index/indexer/PhabricatorSearchDocumentIndexer.php
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 
 /*
- * Copyright 2011 Facebook, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2012 Facebook, Inc.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ abstract class PhabricatorSearchDocumentIndexer {
   final protected static function reindexAbstractDocument(
     PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument $document) {
     $engine = PhabricatorSearchEngineSelector::newSelector()->newEngine();
-    $engine->reindexAbstractDocument($document);
+    try {
+      $engine->reindexAbstractDocument($document);
+    } catch (Exception $ex) {
+      $phid = $document->getPHID();
+      $class = get_class($engine);
+      phlog("Unable to index document {$phid} by engine {$class}.");
+    }
   }
 
 }